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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
John C. Bogle Has Died
1084
2
I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days
1012
3
When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling
973
4
DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
961
5
Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal
940
6
Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
777
7
My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag
775
8
How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear
749
9
Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over
716
10
Programming Fonts – Test Drive
712
Top Ask HN
1
How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?
654
2
What are must-know concepts for back end development?
491
3
Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?
411
4
Why do tutorial writers combine 10 technologies when 1 or 2 would do?
143
5
IT Directors and VP's – how do you manage your time and projects?
131
6
How to deal with internet addiction?
111
7
Improving the world as a software developer
88
8
Who is the most positive impactful person you know?
75
9
Why does front-end development change so often?
71
10
What are your favorite board games?
56
Top Show HN
1
Crowdsourced freelance contract template, written in plain language
299
2
Postmake – A directory of tools and resources for your projects
197
3
HTML5 Video Player in TypeScript
151
4
Musish – Web client for Apple Music
141
5
Nanosecond C message logger
131
6
Json2graphql – From a JSON file to Postgres-backed realtime GraphQL
120
7
Shiny.js simulates reflections on the web for mobile devices
113
8
ASCII TV – Stream ASCII movies in your terminal with curl
108
9
C++ Editor for Teaching How to Code
95
10
Task – A simple build tool written in Go
95
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row
251
2
Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
246
3
Federal HTTPS domains that'll expire soon because of US government shutdown
240
4
AMD is edging closer to breaking Nvidia's graphic dominance
143
5
Hacking of artificial intelligence is an emerging security crisis
138
6
Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning
121
7
Technology’s dark forest
92
8
Nike’s auto-laced future
89
9
Ebola outbreak in Eastern Congo is moving toward a major city
86
10
Twenty legal battles that stand out across Ars’ 20 years of covering them
75
News [?]
1
John C. Bogle Has Died
1084
2
Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
777
3
50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
645
4
WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork
624
5
Bed that saved me from the Taliban
576
6
Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test
574
7
$1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis
465
8
DOJ: Hackers broke into an SEC database and made millions from inside info
448
9
California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low
397
10
Students learn from people they love
388
Scientific publications [?]
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Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA damage in humans
266
2
Vitamin B1 deficiency at the heart of an environmental mystery
180
3
NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moon Titan
113
4
San Diego’s Smart Streetlights Yield a Firehose of Data
72
5
Predicting Variable Types in Dynamically Typed Programming Languages
61
6
Photo-Sketching: Inferring Contour Drawings from Images
54
7
Waves in Saturn's rings give precise measurement of planet's rotation rate
35
8
Delivery Drones Use Bird-Inspired Legs to Jump into the Air
17
9
Americans misperceive racial economic equality
16
10
Artificially produced cells communicate with each other
6
Dev Blogs [?]
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773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old
449
2
Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
280
3
Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language
252
4
Best Display for Programming? (2017)
142
5
Fedora, UUIDs, and user tracking
132
6
Canary analysis: Lessons learned and best practices from Google and Waze
113
7
GitHub dashboard UI refresh
90
8
A new free-software forge: sr.ht
83
9
Gaming the lottery: How one winner used math to overcome the odds
62
10
New Pricing for G Suite Basic and Business Editions
39
Tech blogs [?]
1
EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition
241
2
Leaked emails show Apple tried to use Qualcomm modems in iPhone XS/XR
18
3
Federal Court Rules That Patent Troll Can’t Hide Its Machinations
8
4
Snapdragon 855 Performance Preview
5
5
Scramjet Engines on the Long Road to Mach 5
4
6
Federal Court Orders That Patent Troll Can’t Hide Its Machinations
4
7
PCIe 5.0 Is Ready for Prime Time
3
8
ASUS at CES 2019: ProArt PA32UCX 4K Monitor with 1000-Zone FALD Unveiled
2
9
Web Development: What’s Big in 2019?
2
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SEYMOUR CRAY, FATHER OF THE SUPERCOMPUTER
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
331
2
Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
328
3
A Verified, Efficient Embedding of a Verifiable Assembly Language [pdf]
78
4
Customer Review of APL with a Mathematical Accent (2004)
15
5
AWS Backup
8
6
Erocoin: the Blockchain Erotica
2
7
Apple Differential Privacy [pdf]
2
8
AWS Backup [New] – Centrally manage and automate backups
2
9
Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book Is Now on Amazon
1
10
Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017)
272
2
Torrent Paradise Creates Decentralized 'Pirate Bay' with IPFS
72
3
Who pushes the button?
44
4
Is the Universe a conscious mind? (2018)
42
5
Ducati CEO confirms ‘The future is electric’, says electric Ducati is coming
19
6
Tesla implements innovative way to avoid gas cars 'ICEing' Superchargers
19
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Maskless photolithographic system using low-cost projector and microscope (2005) [pdf]
8
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Vimeo ‘Fined’ €8.5m for Failure to Remove Copyrighted TV Content
4
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Devastating quakes are priming the Himalaya for a mega-disaster
3
10
Are Your High Expectations Hurting Your Team?
3
Science News [?]
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Proper Breathing Brings Better Health
404
2
Screen time: how much is too much?
190
3
Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects
146
4
Fasting can improve overall health
142
5
Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake
130
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The cerebellum is your “little brain”, and it does some pretty big things
104
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Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces
92
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Climate Concerns Are Pushing Oil Majors to Look Beyond Fossil Fuels
92
9
Mapping the Brain at High Resolution
78
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Strangeness of Black Holes
67
Social [?]
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My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag
775
2
Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam
349
3
Tesla laid off my disabled veteran husband then cancelled his sign on bonus
234
4
Cleaning restaurant floor for $1000 per night
217
5
A most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle [video]
155
6
After 25 Years Studying Innovation, Here Is What I Have Learned
142
7
We DMCA-ed our own game because it got hijacked by publisher
139
8
Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants
128
9
When Jeff Bezos decided not to become a physicist [video]
125
10
Facebook to Invest $300m in Supporting Local News
102
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals
492
2
Migrate Jest to TypeScript
261
3
Professional programming resources
247
4
Apple Open-Sources FoundationDB Record Layer
243
5
NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7
240
6
Nuclear – Popcorn Time for music
223
7
Lines of bare C++: raytracing made simple
207
8
Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust
207
9
Zkeme80 – A Forth-Based OS for the TI-84+ Calculator
164
10
A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop
138
Wikipedia [?]
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Gömböc
113
2
Paradox of tolerance
78
3
Rules of Play
55
4
MUMPS
9
5
Girih tiles
4
6
Intel TeraHertz
4
7
Exposure value
3
8
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
3
9
Catatumbo Lightning
3
10
Pykrete
3
Blogs [?]
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Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
388
2
Introduction to TLA+ Model Checking in the Command Line
176
3
Hiring Is Broken
163
4
Every new web app at PayPal starts with TypeScript
117
5
Being collateral damage in the culture wars of the West
114
6
On Infrastructure at Scale: A Cascading Failure of Distributed Systems
110
7
Zero to $1B: Lessons Scaling a Startup
85
8
Amazon is becoming more powerful than we realize
78
9
How shutting out men from the conversation is an obstacle to change
78
10
Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone’s Head
77
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What's so great about Lisp?
3
Substack [?]
1
Steve Jobs was wrong about middle management
18
2
Flow State: Two hours of music that's perfect to work to, every weekday
1